Stånga

	Stånga
	Stånga
State :	Sweden
Province (län):	Gotland County
Historical Province (landskap):	Gotland
Municipality :	Gotland
Coordinates :	57 ° 17 ' N , 18 ° 28' E Coordinates: 57 ° 17 ' N , 18 ° 28' E
SCB code :	2540
Status:	Crime scene
Residents :	335 (December 31, 2015)
Area :	1.11 km²
Population density :	302 inhabitants / km²
	List of perpetrators in Gotland County

Stånga Church

Stånga is a place ( Swedish tatort ) on the Swedish island of Gotland in the parish ( Swedish socks ) Stånga in the municipality of Gotland in the Gotland County in the historic Gotland Province . The place is 41 km south of Visby , 25 km south of Roma ( Roma monastery), 8 km northeast of Hemse and 15 km southwest of Ljugarn . Road 144 from Ljugarn to Hemse goes through Stånga.

Stånga is known for the Gotland Olympics and the Gumbalde golfklubb . Here was also the Runestone Kylverstenen which kylver stone , found one of the oldest in Sweden. The medieval church of Stånga is located in Stånga .

Population development

The table shows the population development from 1960 to 2010. In 1980 the maximum was reached with 360 inhabitants.


year	surface	Residents
1960	k. A.	229
1965	k. A.	218
1970	k. A.	247
1975	k. A.	255
1980	k. A.	360
1990	101	348
1995	103	347
2000	103	334
2005	105	342
2010	105	317
2015	111	335

Environment (parish)

The parish of Stånga is predominantly forested in the north and arable farming in the south, for which areas of the drained Stånga myr bog are partly used.

To the west of the village is a burial ground with the Rojrhagen wheel grave . In the parish there are six small grave fields gravfalt, burnt mound sites ( Swedish skärvstenshögar ), remains of foundations ( Swedish husgrunder ), stone paths ( Swedish stensträngar ), so-called Sliprannor or Slipskårestenar , these are stones that were cut into straight slots of a few decimeters from earlier times Length, a hill fort ( Swedish fornborg ) and the Kylverstein with its runic inscription. The ruins of the medieval castle Lojsta Castle and the reconstructed Iron Age house Lojsta hall are also in the parish of Stånga. Two silver treasures from the Viking Age have been found in the parish.

Surname

The name was in the 14th century Stangum and probably contains the plural of the Swedish word stång ( German rod ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per crime scene, folkmängd och invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)
↑ Statistiska centralbyrån - Folkmängd i tatorter 1960-2005. (PDF; 590 kB) Archived from the original on June 23, 2011 ; Retrieved January 15, 2012 .

Web links

Stånga. In: Gotland.net. Retrieved February 2, 2013 (Swedish).
Runor. In: guteinfo. Retrieved February 2, 2013 (Swedish).

[scb_aktuell-1] Statistiska centralbyrån : Land area per crime scene, folkmängd och invånare per square kilometer. Vart femte år 1960 - 2015 (database query)

[2] Statistiska centralbyrån - Folkmängd i tatorter 1960-2005. (PDF; 590 kB) Archived from the original on June 23, 2011 ; Retrieved January 15, 2012 .